1 month ago
deusx : Extended Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Extended Mind refers to an emerging concept within the philosophy of mind that addresses the question as to the division point between the mind and the environment by promoting the view of active externalism. This view proposes that some objects
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1 month ago
deusx : The Extended Mind - "Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind. Others are impressed by arguments suggest
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3 month ago
deusx : Overcoming Bias: Mind Projection Fallacy - "Would a non-humanoid alien, with a different evolutionary history and evolutionary psychology, sexually desire a human female? It seems rather unlikely. To put it mildly."
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plasticbag : You have a limited amount of willpower which you must spend wisely, although you can train yourself to develop more! - You require willpower to develop willpower. Nasty. To be honest, this connects well with my experience. I've managed to make myself more focused, and my flat's normally a tip.
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11 month ago
deusx : Your Outboard Brain Knows All - "Sure, I'm a veritable genius when I'm on the grid, but am I mentally crippled when I'm not? Does an overreliance on machine memory shut down other important ways of understanding the world?"
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17 month ago
deusx : Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers - "Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence."
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deusx : Developing Intelligence : Shared Intentionality in Human and Primate Cognition - "Although humans and non-human primates differ in a variety of seemingly more important ways, Tomasello suggests that "shared intentionality" is the most critical: a propensity for social interaction allowed each of these other capacities to evolve to the
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deusx : YouTube - Bullet Dodging 6 years old brain damaged/autistic girl - "Ashley has developped "special" abilities since her accident which has damage some important parts of her brain."
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26 month ago
deusx : MindBlog: How do we persist when our molecules do not? - "No component of the system is itself stable but the entire production locks together to have stable existence. This is how you can manage to persist even though much of you is being recycled by day if not the hour."
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28 month ago
deusx : Alex Byrne: What Mind-Body Problem - "It may yet turn out that the hard problem of consciousness is not so hard after all."
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31 month ago
deusx : LOST Magazine - Gray Area: Thinking With a Damaged Brain - "My entire brain, the organ by which my very consciousness is controlled, was reorganized one day ten years ago."
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31 month ago
deusx : Mind Hacks: Thinking with a damaged brain - "It's rare to find such a carefully considered and well-informed account of brain damage from someone who has suffered the consequences."
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Creating Passionate Users: Brain death by dull cubicle - "Complex surroundings create a complex brain." On the other hand: "Dull, lifeless work environments cause brain damage."
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33 month ago
plasticbag : Allegedly psychic Flash game works out what number you were thinking of... - Or at least so it seems for about the first three minutes you play with it. Have a couple of goes and then see if you can figure out how it's done. There's at least one ingenious twist in the whole thing...
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Color Perception Is Not In The Eye Of The Beholder: It's In The Brain - Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that the number of color-sensitive cones in the human retina differs dramatically among people—by up to 40 times—yet people appear to perceive colors the same way
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35 month ago
kayodeok : How We Remember, and Why We Forget - we can remember something best if we learn it in a context that we understand, or if it is emotionally important to us
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Supercomputer's key to the brain - Blue Gene, a commercially available supercomputer, will help scientists to peer into the most inscrutable part of ourselves. "We are trying to understand the brain, and one pathway is to take our available knowledge of the brain and put it to a test insid
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37 month ago
jimray : Mindfulness In Plain English
deusx : Mindfulness In Plain English - "This is a meditation manual, a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step guide to Insight meditation. It is meant to be practical. It is meant for use."
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37 month ago
kayodeok : How the Brain Understands Pictures - It does so in a fraction of a second via special nerve circuits in the brain's visual center that automatically organize information into a "whole" even as an individual's gaze and attention are focused on only one part
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38 month ago
kayodeok : The Mindjet Blog: Blog Better With MindManager - Use MindManager maps as blueprints for successful blog postings
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Wired News: Mind May Affect Machines - Researchers at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research program, or Pear, have been attempting to measure the effect of human consciousness on machines since 1979
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Our Brains do not work like Computers - New Cornell study suggests that mental processing is continuous, not like a computer
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39 month ago
deusx : Telegraph | News | 'Missing link' between madness and genius - "Genius cannot exist without mental disorder, according to a study that names George Orwell, LS Lowry and Lewis Carroll among 21 artists who suffered a form of autism."
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Mind hack which uses our brain's natural ability to encode context as an aid to writing code: - Pick one tune or one album that you like, disten to it while you develop the code [...], don't listen to it again until... you need to work on the same code, then listen to it
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44 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : FreeMind - FreeMind: free mind mapping software
kayodeok : FreeMind - free mind mapping software - "FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool"
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